Hey all, I have been lurking and researching for a few weeks now. I was hoping if I could outline my basic plan for diving into the affiliate market world I could get some feedback before making any super-noobish mistakes.
I am hoping to get most traffic out of SEO and then do some complementary FB and Adwords campaigns. My basic plan is to register several domains, throw up wordpress w/plugins (all in one SEO, site map, etc.) and then blog according to a chosen niche. I'm hoping to bang out 2-4 blogs a week (around 15-20 posts per blog), link them, and throw on some adsense to hopefully get a little something coming in during this first stage. After building for 8 weeks I should have a small base of ~25 sites. At this point I plan to go back to the sites created in the first week and update / optimise them, and start working in the affiliate promotion.
As for my link strategy, I am planning to a-b-c link the sites as I build them each week, and additionally have each new site link to any sites built the week before. So by the time I finish this first building phase I should have the first sites fairly decently linked (I hope).
I have seen a lot about how domains need to be spread out across different IP's when blogging like this to get the best SEO effect from the links. I am planning to go with cyberwurx for hosting as they offer unlimited domains, but how many domains can I assign to an IP? I have read that ~5 is the sweet spot.
Is this a decent plan or am I going about it ass-backwards? Just FYI, I am a CS major, have managed some small sites before, etc..So I am comfortable working with databases, FTP, and the internet at large. My primary concern is the SEO and marketing aspect - both of which I feel I have learned all that I can by reading, and that it is time to dive in and do some testing. I also want to make sure I am not making more work for myself than is necessary - for example, am I better off just throwing up landing pages instead of blogs, or maybe a mix of both?
As for affiliate networks, I am hoping to go with copeac as they seem to be the most reputable. However, I have also read that they reject a lot of people, which leads me to believe they are not very noob friendly. In this respect, is it better that I get some solid traffic before applying? Any other thoughts / advice on this?
All posts welcome, flames included. I will, of course, oblige you with breasts for good advice. Thanks all.
I am hoping to get most traffic out of SEO and then do some complementary FB and Adwords campaigns. My basic plan is to register several domains, throw up wordpress w/plugins (all in one SEO, site map, etc.) and then blog according to a chosen niche. I'm hoping to bang out 2-4 blogs a week (around 15-20 posts per blog), link them, and throw on some adsense to hopefully get a little something coming in during this first stage. After building for 8 weeks I should have a small base of ~25 sites. At this point I plan to go back to the sites created in the first week and update / optimise them, and start working in the affiliate promotion.
As for my link strategy, I am planning to a-b-c link the sites as I build them each week, and additionally have each new site link to any sites built the week before. So by the time I finish this first building phase I should have the first sites fairly decently linked (I hope).
I have seen a lot about how domains need to be spread out across different IP's when blogging like this to get the best SEO effect from the links. I am planning to go with cyberwurx for hosting as they offer unlimited domains, but how many domains can I assign to an IP? I have read that ~5 is the sweet spot.
Is this a decent plan or am I going about it ass-backwards? Just FYI, I am a CS major, have managed some small sites before, etc..So I am comfortable working with databases, FTP, and the internet at large. My primary concern is the SEO and marketing aspect - both of which I feel I have learned all that I can by reading, and that it is time to dive in and do some testing. I also want to make sure I am not making more work for myself than is necessary - for example, am I better off just throwing up landing pages instead of blogs, or maybe a mix of both?
As for affiliate networks, I am hoping to go with copeac as they seem to be the most reputable. However, I have also read that they reject a lot of people, which leads me to believe they are not very noob friendly. In this respect, is it better that I get some solid traffic before applying? Any other thoughts / advice on this?
All posts welcome, flames included. I will, of course, oblige you with breasts for good advice. Thanks all.
